Grammarly Authorship integrates with Blackboard LMS, giving instructors at Blackboard-powered institutions a way to require writing-process reports alongside student submissions without asking students to change where they write.
Grammarly Authorship tracks how a document is assembled, categorizing each section of text as human-typed, AI-generated, pasted from another source, or rephrased using Grammarly's own generative features. Students generate a shareable report from within their normal writing app and attach the link to their standard submission. The tool launched in beta inside Google Docs in October 2024 and has since expanded to Grammarly Docs, Microsoft Word, and Word Online. Students have produced more than 5 million Authorship reports to date, according to Grammarly.
The Blackboard connection follows a Canvas LMS integration that Grammarly added in September 2025, extending the tool to the other major learning management system in North American higher education. Setup runs through Blackboard's standard assignment-creation interface: instructors toggle on an option inside the Originality Report settings while building an assignment. Students activate tracking with a single click in whichever writing app they already use, select their sharing permissions, and submit the report link alongside their document. Because tracking operates on student consent and students can see their own writing-process data but cannot alter it before sharing, the system surfaces transparency rather than generating accusations after the fact.
Early institutional data points to a behavioral effect that precedes grading. Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, which deployed Authorship across its English department, recorded a drop in academic integrity violations from 27 to 1 in a single semester, a 96% reduction. Grammarly Authorship frames attribution visibility as the mechanism: when students know their writing sources are tracked throughout drafting, the incentive to misrepresent AI-generated content falls before an assignment is submitted rather than after it is flagged.
The integration is available for Grammarly for Education customers on institution-wide Blackboard plans. Institutions install it through a Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) setup, with Anthology, Blackboard's parent company, listed as a formal partner in the rollout. Adding Blackboard completes coverage of the two dominant LMS platforms in higher education and positions Grammarly Authorship as an infrastructure-level accountability layer rather than a one-off detection tool.
